Grade Please.

I am so bored writing my essay that i decided to blog on my essay topic.
Basically, people study pauses in speech as a marker of fluency. However, there are short and long pauses and they all subjective to individual speakers. So tradition (arnd 40 years) has just given some arbitary value of less than 200 millisecs to be pauses that are irrelevant to speech analysis (grossly summarised).
Come along a new objective method. Which was devised by my lecturer or adopted shall we say. Where individual speech is assessed by log-normal distributions (mathematical function). Two curves can now be seen that can be split into short and long pauses and can take the criterion (in between as the threshold -- also grossly summarised) to individual differences in pauses. So that everyone has a unique level as to which pauses are deemed appropriate for analysis.
Should ask my lecturer to mark my blog. Although i cant help feeling he did something wrong in SPSS (stats package) and then found something (Taiko aka fluke). hahahaha. Ok la.. i guess he is just more brilliant then me. Must give credit to UWA profs. We have nobel prize winners ok??
I should find something to log. Log cake.

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Tonnes of assignments due but had time to unwind on sunday by watching X-men III. Wasnt that great. Also have a bit of time to blog in between writing essays due on friday. Cos a bit bored.
But now that most ppl have seen X-men, the jokes about Beast the blue furry hero is going to become more prevalent. Just be sure when insulting others jokingly do not do so like my friend.
"u already look like breast when u dont shave man"
This will make your sentence truly insulting instead. Thus the moral is we must all take care about our enthusiasm to adopt current movies into our lives just to stay relevant to the times. Understand. Remember that. Its important. This is a computer generated message: Sorry, I am currently away from the computer. I will get back to you once I return. Thanks.

Why God is fair

1. If you do not have looks, God gives you intelligence.

2. If you do not have intelligence, God gives you looks.

3. If you do not have intelligence or looks, God gives you wealth.

4. If you do not have intelligece, looks and wealth, God makes you deluded. i.e you think you have one, two or all of the above. Usually looks.

Domains of Expertise

Had a cognitive lecture yesterday and this was one of the slides. It regards Legitimate domains of expertise. Here we were talking about speed reading.
1. Normal readers fixate on a portion of the text 4 times a second,
2. 5-10 letters seen every second
3. therefore, calculations in experimental manipulation gives arnd 400 words per minute that can be read.
4. Speed readers on the other hand claim to be able to read 200,000 !! words per min
5. Experimentation shows they can mostly do arnd 15000 to 30,000 wpm.
6. They exhibit remarkable dexterity in page turning.
7. They have no comprehension of the text read.

Moral as expounded by lecturer: at the moment, dont waste money on speed reading packages.

Irritating soccer team

Forward 1 -- Dbjrill Cisse: if its not for the difficulty in spelling his name its the constantly changing UGLY hairstyles and the diff coloured boots for each foot. Super Poser!
Forward 2 -- Didier Drogba: Just a general aura of arrogance and low EQ. Last year he celebrated winning the title by running off the pitch and coming back with his watch on. Also did many stupid gliding on the grass dives after that.
Midfield centre -- Noh Alam Shah: Give Singapore some credit. Stupid bruiser that is always scolding something.
Midfield centre -- Deco: So over-rated and really only good at diving.
Midfield right -- David Beckham : because tattoos are more important than his crossing of the ball.
Midfield Left -- Robbie Slater: Played for West Ham and Blackburn's title winning winger. Not a bad player but somehow decided that he had the cut to make it as an Australian soccer commentator.
Defence centre: Lim Tong Hai -- Tall, but thats about it. Everytime he played for Singapore, commentators would proclaim "Tong Hai gives the backline some height.. (but actually he is not any good at playing soccer)" Brackets are usually what they meant to say but did not dare to.
Defence centre: Jean-Alain Boumsong: Shouldnt blame him for just basically being poor, but he gets into this squad for wasting 8.5 million dollars; besides, making gross blunders every game is just irritating.
Defence Right: Gary Neville -- the jian boy as we call him. England International who doesnt have much speed nor skill. How he defends? Watch carefully next time.
Defence Left: Roberto Carlos -- Defending through pure speed only. And always wants to take free kicks when he only has one 'blast it straight at the wall' technique.
Goalkeeper: Jens Lehmann -- Super loudmouth that invented the stupid "dont pick the ball up" tactic to waste time. Always trying to con the ref that the strikers foul him as well.
Manager: Graeme Souness -- Self-proclaimed disciplinarian but his tactics are laughable.
Style of Play: Bolton -- Hey boys! Lets just pump it in and play pin ball with our heads.

Who ate my ice-cream??  

WA.!!. cyclops looks good in the movie man.. must be the stubble.  

Pros and Con-men

The good news: I finished my lab book on time. Just.
The bad news: I still have 4 essays to do from now till the start of exams.

The good news: Borders is opening in Perth city on the 25th of May
The bad news: I always spend too much money buying chess books.

The good news: I played soccer again after like 3 weeks.
The bad news: I broke my soccer specs.

Always look on the bright side of life. Di du di du di du di du
Always look on the dark side of the the above. Di du di du di du di du

To increase popularity of your blog -- act as a poser.  

If nothing to write about.. show some skin.  

Where's the Colour in my world?

Where's the colour in my words? The colour button is gone! Anyone know how to retrieve it?
Talking about colour, do you realise that young ppl these days love to colour their hair. Now there is even like orange and blonde mix. Wonder how long it will be before the in-thing is something like lime green and purple mixture. Imagine all the teenagers with red and white hair and the 70 and aboves having gold and silver. Colour coding for generations. Dummies guide to Dying your hair is on the cards -- i can so feel it.
Fact: I have died my hair before. Fiction: The colour i died my hair was pink. Fact: It was pink and dark blue. Fiction: The Factual statement before this one. Fact: I could have died having died my hair. Fiction: My dad is quite alright with me dying my hair.
If that was confusing then maybe telling you about my hair cutting experience just now is not. Basically she just snipped off almost everything. I think the only criteria they have for cutting hair here is "Make it look like a hedgehog". All barbers here seem to cut the same style. Its truly quite amazing how everyone just gets this square-top look.

Come and Gone

So Louise arrived and has now gone home to Singapore. In time to vote i must add. Which explains why this blog has again been neglected. Assignments and exams coming up so maybe it might just become the norm.
Just a question to anyone who can recommend a good blog traffic counter. I have enough of flashy things that flash colours but seldom load in the first place. Substance over style is my policy now. HAHA. Talking about substance.. There apparently is a prophecy that Perth will be struck by a natural disaster. This YEAR!! A prediction made by the same guy that warned about the recent tsunamis. Not too sure about his prophesying credentials: Wonder whether he predicted anything else before that.
Anyway, in order to be prepared for the worse; me and my 2 friends have decided to save the world. In case of tsunamis i shall transform into Sponge Man and soak up all the water. However, no real claims were made about the type of natural disaster. Thus, Sponge Man is really creeped out by millions of cockroaches running amok, so in that case will call upon the qualities of Insecticide Boy!!
All this will be secondary if an asteriod strikes Perth though. So along comes Asteriod Girl to save all we Perthlings. What she is going to do with the big rock i have no idea. Prolly display it in the Perth Museum along with that preserved rare whale species known as Megamouth of something.